There are 11 Blake males listed on The Trafalgar Database (https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/trafalgarancestors/) including five from England, four from Ireland, one from Wales and one from America.
David Blake aged 22 born in Newcastle.
Ship: HMS Victory
Rank/Rating: Able Seaman
Service details
Comments: From: Woolwich Tender
HMS Victory
Ship's pay book number: (SB 399)
11 May 1803 to 15 January 1806 (Was at Trafalgar)
Rank/rating: Able Seaman
Comments: prest
HMS Ocean
Ship's pay book number: (SB 274)
17 January 1806 to 14 April 1809
Rank/rating: Able Seaman
HMS Ville De Paris (1)
Prisoner of War #840 serving on HMS Friends, 7 Sep 1813 (2)
Sources used
(1) The National Archives (UK): Catalogue reference: ADM 36/15900
(2) The National Archives (UK): Catalogue reference: ADM 103/465 (part 1)
Jacob Blake aged 30 born in America.
Ship: HMS Revenge
Rank/Rating: Able Seaman
Service details
Comments: From: Utrecht, Dowry prest
HMS Revenge
Ship's pay book number: (SB 487)
14 June 1805 (1)
Sources used
(1) The National Archives (UK), Catalogue reference: ADM 36/16545
James Blake aged 20 born in Manchester, Lancashire, England.
Ship: HMS Royal Sovereign
Rank/Rating: Landsman
Service details (1)
HMS Royal Sovereign
Ship's pay book number: (SB 527)
1 March 1805
He is possibly the James Blake, 22 of Manchester who is listed on a Trinity House Petition - series 1 Book 11 page 17 (2)
Sources used
(1) The National Archives, Catalogue reference: ADM 36/15755
(2) Find My Past, Trinity House Petitions, Series 1 (copyright Society of Genealogists)
James Blake, aged 24 born in Donegal, Ireland.
Ship: HMS Colossus
Rank/Rating: Landsman
Service details (1)
HMS Colossus
Ship's pay book number: (SB 187)
Sources used
(1) The National Archives, Catalogue reference: ADM 36/15825
James Blake, aged 21 born in Sidmouth, Devon, England.
Ship: HMS Minotaur
Rank/Rating: Ordinary Seaman
Service details (1)
HMS Minotaur
Ship's pay book number: (SB 491)
There is a James Blake living at Stoke Damerel on the 1851 English Census born at Maker, Cornwall so not likely the correct one but he was born in 1782. I did not find a James Blake born at Sidmouth or closeby to that area looking at Find My Past.
Sources used
(1) The National Archives, Catalogue reference: ADM 36/16055
James Blake aged 17 born in Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland, England
Ship: HMS Leviathan
Rank/Rating: Landsman
Service details (1)
HMS Leviathan
24 June 1804
Comments: Volunteer
Ship\s pay book number: (SB 1715)
25 June 1804
Also found on Find My Past under Merchant Seaman I found a long list of Blake males includes a number of James Blake but not this man will have to go back in and collect these another time.
Sources used:
(1)The National Archives: Catalogue reference: ADM 36/15837
John Blake, aged 29 born in Wexford, Ireland.
Ship: HMS Leviathan
Rank/Rating: Able Seaman
Personal details:
Notes : will and power to wife 15 March 1804
Service details (1)
HMS Leviathan
Ship's pay book number: (SB 1139)
23 November 1803
Rank/rating: Ordinary Seaman
24 November 1803
Sources used
(1)The National Archives, Catalogue reference ADM 36/15837
John Blake, aged 28 born in Dublin, Ireland.
Ship: HMS Naiad
Rank/Rating: Able Seaman
Service details (1)
HMS Naiad
Ship's pay book number: (SB 137)
Sources used
(1) The National Archives, Catalogue reference: ADM 36/16799
John Blake aged 16 born in Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales.
Ship: HMS Bellerophon
Rank/Rating: Boy
Service details (1)
Comments: from Salvador Del Mundo, United Brothers, Volunteer
HMS Bellerophon
Ship's pay book number: (B3C, no 30)
29 April 1805 to 17 December 1805 (was at Trafalgar)
Rank/rating: Boy
Ship's pay book number: (SB 868)
18 December 1805 to 2 February 1808
Rank/rating: Landsman
Comments: Run 2 February 1808 Plymouth, Devon, England
Sources used
(1) The National Archives, Catalogue reference: ADM 36/16498
John Blake aged 40 born in Catdown, Devon, England.
Ship: HMS Sirius
Rank/Rating: Yeoman of the Sheets
Personal details
Notes
TNA catalogue reference ADM 73/2 records that John Blake was admitted to Greenwich Hospital as an in-pensioner on 11 April 1811.
Service details
HMS Alarm
11 January 1794 to 6 May 1794
Rank/rating: Able Seaman
HMS Veteran
7 May 1794 to 13 October 1796
Rank/rating: Coxswain and Yeoman of the Signals
HMS Duke
14 October 1796 to 10 April 1798
Rank/rating: Yeoman of the Signals and Boatswain's Mate
HMS Europa
11 April 1798 to 26 September 1799
Rank/rating: Boatswain's Mate
HMS Temeraire
27 September 1799 to 5 October 1802
Rank/rating: Yeoman of the Signals and Boatswain's Mate
HMS Sirius
Ship's pay book number: (SB 108)
7 October 1802 to 8 May 1807 (Was at Trafalgar)
Rank/rating: Yeoman of the Signals
HMS Madras
9 May 1807 to 11 February 1808
Rank/rating: Able Seaman
There is a John Blake baptized at Torbryan Devon son of John and Mary Blake 1 Apr 1764 (3).
Sources used
(1) The National Archives, Catalogue reference: ADM 36/16854
(2) The National Archives, Catalogue reference: ADM 73/2
(3) Devon Baptisms 3066a/PR/1/2, South West Heritage Trust, viewed on Find My Past
Robert Blake aged 22 born in County Wexford, Ireland
Ship: HMS Prince
Rank/Rating: Landsman
Service details (1)
HMS Prince
Ship\s pay book number: (SB 131)
13 April 1804
Sources used
(1) The National Archives, Catalogue reference: ADM 36/16274
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